DECANDRIA. PENTAGYNIA. Sedum. 419 



S. Leaves oblong, blunt, nearly cylindrical, sitting, expand- al'bum. 



ing : tuft branching. 



Curt. Fl. dan. 66-Black<w. 42S-Allioni 65, 2-Ger. 413. 2- 

 Clus. ii. 5p. l-Dod. 129. 2~Lob. obs. 205. 2-Ger. em. 

 512. 2-Pari. 734. \-H. ox. xii. 7. 23-Fuchs. 35-Trag. 

 378-7. 5. iii. 690-Walc-Lonic i. 60. 1. 



«S7<™« trailing, striking root ; flowering branches upright, 

 bearing a forked tuft of flowers with subdivided fruit-stalks. 

 Leaves semi-cylindrical, being flatted above and loose underneath 

 at the base. Flowers white, but with reddish streaks, and a 

 general blush of red, and the whole plant has sometimes a pur- 

 plish tinge. 



White-flowered Stonecrop. Sedum minus terettfoh alb. R. Syn. 



p* 271. St. Walls and roofs. [Walls at Peterborough. Mr. 

 Woodward. Rocks above Great Malvern. Nash. Wick 

 Cliffs. Mr. S WAYNE.] P. June, July. 



S. Leaves nearly egg-shaped, growing to and sitting, bulg- 

 ing, nearly upright^ alternate : tuft with 3 divisions. 



Curt.-E. hot. 839-Woodv. 231-Sheldr. ±2-Fuchs. 36- J. B. 

 iii. 694. 2-Trag. 379-Blacknv. 232-Ger. 415-Clus. ii. 

 6l. 1-Ger. em. 517 • 2-Park. 735. 7-H. ox. xii. 6". row 

 3. 12-Pet. 42.9-Dod. 129. 3-Lob. obs. 205. 4-ParL 

 735. 8~Matth. 1119-Lomc. i. 59* 2. 



Shoots club-shaped, closely tiled with leaves on every side. 

 Flo<wers terminating ; yellow. 



Pepper Stonecrop. Wall Pepper. Walls, roofs, rocks, and dry 

 pastures. P. June, July.* 



* It is very acrid. Applied externally it blisters. Taken inwartlly 

 it excites vomiting. In scorbutic cases, and quartan agues, it is an excel- 

 lent medicine under propfcr management. This plant continues to grow 

 when hung up by the root, which has been considered as a proof that it 

 receives its nourishment principally from the air ; but from some accurate 

 experiments made by Mr. Gough of Kendal, and communicated to me, it 

 appears that though the life of the plant is retained in such a situation for 

 Some weeks, yet it seems to be at the expence of the juices which its 

 succulent leaves had previously imbibed. At the end of 3 weeks, the 

 plant, suspended towards the end of June, before a window with a north- 

 em aspect, had lost about half its weight, though it had put out some fine 

 fibres from the root, and had still life enough to enable it to turn to the 

 light after having been purposely turned from it. After being kept in 

 water for 24 hours, it regained more than half of what it had lost. Mr. 

 Gough therefore very justly considers the succulent leaves as reservoirs, 

 which support it in dry weather, and are again replenished in rainy sea- 

 sons, but does not admit the common observation that it attracts its nou- 

 rishment from the air more than other plants do. lie used plants which 

 hfcd not flowered, because, after flowering, the leaves are apt to fall oil'. 



Goats eat it; cows } horses, sheep, and swine refuse it. 



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